Land art and site specific sculpture - land art uses
the environment and its scale as its material. Concrete art is expressed in
material itself with which the artist introduces her non-representational objective.
Public art can be viewed and accessed by observers.

Arch a sculpture near Rotterdam in old Rhoon

My first sketch proposal for arch was an application for a project
in The Hague - 1988.

During the eighties the city of The Hague had the open application
procedure for public art projects. Artists could apply by sketching
their idea for the given site where funds were made available for site
specific art projects. Here was the junction of two main avenues in 'Den
Haag', the Binckhorstlaan and the Neherkade.

The committee immediately chose my suggestion to position an arch
over the intersection. This would not be the conventional arch but half
of a Romanesque vault's rib construction, in such a way that I chose the
two arch segments which meet at a right angle. But the two avenues do not intersect at a right angle; so the angle
between the two segments would correspond to that of the axes of the
Binckhorstlaan and the Neherkade, which was either an acute or an obtuse
angle. After studying the traffic flow I decided on the location where
the angle would be greater than 90 degrees.

But when the large segments were bent and all the other parts were
made, there was an unexpected delay. Some people at the public works
department of The Hague seem to have woken up and realized that the
advisory committee for the arts had not been notified about some changes
that had been made in the construction of the intersection. The new
dimensions made it impossible to place the sculpture. It had become too
small. The only thing that could be done was to store the parts and try
to find some solution - or another location in The Hague. The contractor
had his facilities in the street adjoining the site, and they were
stored there. After about seven years no other location was found in the
city. So Stroom Art Center of The Hague contacted me about what to do.
if I wanted, I could become the owner again or the sculpture could be
scrapped.
I started looking for a space to store it ....